Climate, health and opportunity
by Gary Fuller from Environment | The Guardian on (#XKAA)
Actions to help climate change do not always help air pollution.
One conflict area is wood heating. This is becoming increasingly popular across Europe as a low carbon fuel but it produces a lot of air pollution. This is especially true of open fires where most of the heat is wasted too. Modern stoves and wood chip burners perform better but it is difficult for any wood burner to match the low pollution from gas heating.
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